Rainy Day Reads

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which to be honest was a little unexpected. I have been so unfortunate to read a lot of books I didn’t really like lately, and I was afraid this would be another one, but I was happily surprised. I mean, it’s not stellar, but I enjoyed it more than so many other books.   I assumed this would be a book about the girls of a beauty pageant and their trials within this pageant. And it was! Kind of. But it was so much more than that too! It starts with the plane carrying the girls crashing on a desert island. Now they have to learn how to survive on the island using only their very mixed skills and whatever they can salvage from their luggage of beauty supplies and evening gowns. The reader, however, soon finds out that they are not alone on the island. There is a super secret compound manned by soldiers and scientists working for The Corporation. The very same corporation that sponsors the beauty pageant. Secret and shady things are going on on ...

This book is yet another first in a series. It seems to be harder and harder to find a stand-alone these days! I can’t seem to find any information as to whether this is a trilogy or a longer series.   I had heard great hype about this book on Youtube. Everyone who has read it seems to love it to pieces. And once again I am left wondering. I wonder why I didn’t like this book as much as everyone else. Is it me? Am I too critical and hard to please? Maybe, but the fact remains that I was yet again disappointed in a book I had heard so many great things about.  The story is about a young girl, Evie, who gets sent to New York to live with her uncle after a spot of trouble in her hometown. It is set in the 1920s and we are treated to a quite vivid portrait of New York at the time, including the slang, which I thought was nice. It isn’t too hard to understand the slang, based on content, and if ever there is any trouble understanding, Evie fortunately has an uncle, who som...